a peek inside the poetic freak

Here are 30 incredible quotes picked from Murakami’s works ranging from short stories to full-on novels.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.

Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those…